“People make songs so that somebody else will hear them and want to do them. I guess it's an indication that the songs aren't so ultra-personal that they can't possibly be interpreted by anyone else.”
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“You hope people are going to be listening to you after you're gone. And they like you better after you're gone.”
“You have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.”
“The security of people and nations rests on four pillars - food, energy, water and climate. They are all closely related, and all under increasing stress”
“If you think we are going to gain ground by holding the American people hostage, saying that their taxes are at risk, I actually disagree.”
“I think we've had two presidents in a row that tried to unite the American people and both of them failed, quite frankly. And I think Donald Trump has decided he's going to get things done. That's going to be his measuring rod.”
“Most people want Jesus as a consultant rather than a King, and He does not come that way.”
“Contextualization is not giving people what they want. It is giving God's answers (which they probably do not want) to the questions they are asking and in forms they can comprehend.”
“One of the biggest obstacles in the way of people coming to Christianity is that they think they know about it already.”
“Every religion has a prophet who is pointing people to God. Jesus is the only one who says, 'I am God, and I am coming to find you.'”
“Tolerance is not the absence of belief. Tolerance is how your beliefs teach you to treat other people”
“If the preaching of our ministers and the practice of our parishioners do not have the same effect on people that Jesus had, then we must not be declaring the same message that Jesus did.”
“To be on set every day with a whole bunch of people that know their job and my job a lot better than I do and I'm supposed to tell them what to do, that's very uncomfortable and awkward.”
“I buy my Avengers tickets. But I think people are going to really get into seeing this other side of the world.”
“On the web the thinking of cults can spread very rapidly and suddenly a cult which was 12 people who had some deep personal issues suddenly find a formula which is very believable.”
“It's a new medium, it's a universal medium and it's not itself a medium which inherently makes people do good things, or bad things. It allows people to do what they want to do more efficiently.”
“It was really hard explaining the Web before people just got used to it because they didn't even have words like click and jump and page.”
“I have built a moat around myself, along with ways over that moat so that people can ask questions.”
“The story of the growth of the World Wide Web can be measured by the number of Web pages that are published and the number of links between pages. The Web's ability to allow people to forge links is why we refer to it as an abstract information space, rather than simply a network.”
“If I had taken a proprietary control of the Web, then it would never have taken off. People only committed their time to it because they knew it was open, shared: that they could help decide what would happen to it next.. and I wouldn't be raking off 10%!”